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Re:Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception by gowld on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:15AM (#20124686)
Jokes aside, The Maxwell House Haggadah is one of the oldest examples of free ad-supported content decimating the market for quality content while expanding access. Everyone had MH's free Hagaddah, so most people never bothered to seek out an alternative that better suits their spiritual values, and probably turned off a segment of a generation of people from being interested in Passover and Judaism, but people who weren't going to pay ever still got something to sustain their Jewish practice. All this beyond the fundamental tackiness of a major religious artifact having corporate branding.
Re:Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception by bradleyjg on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:19AM (#20131985)
I was playing the original comments for laughs, but the MH haggadah is want I want out of a haggadah and am I fairly sad that it or something nearly identical doesn't exist anymore.

I don't want huge swaths cut out; I like the archaic English (the Hebrew is archaic); I don't want little asides about how the story of the exodus rings true today because it's just like the Jews stuck behind the iron curtain or apartheid South Africa or oppressed racial minorities in the US.

I just want more or less the same haggadah that my ancestors used with a translation so I can follow along in a language I understand. If we aren't getting a lot of value out of a discussion of how and an extra comma means one hundred plagues at the red sea, we can choose to skip that part ourselves.

Re:Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception by giggly_gopher on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:52AM (#20125130)
On all other nights we drink Folgers, tonight Maxwell House.
Re:Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception by compsciphd on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:26PM (#20126811)
really? The haggadah industry is huge. Every year friends of mine are posting on facebook what new haggadot with interesting commentary they got.